Monthly Archives: February 2017

I had never heard of GigJam before today, but it immediately impressed me. This Office365 service, which started out as a closed Preview then was opened to everyone on Windows, Mac, and iOS in June of 2016, is now out of its testing phase and finally available on the Play Store.

The idea is simple enough: you want to share a specific document or piece of information with someone to get their opinion, negotiate with them, give them advice, show them how things should be done, etc, but you don’t want to share all the document and you don’t want it to be available to them past the needed time.

We interrupt our MWC reporting now to bring you some Very Important Breaking News That Couldn’t Wait Any Second Longer™. (Read: Rita got bored of spec sheets and wanted to have some light fun.)

Remember Samsung’s Family Hub fridge? Yeah, that one, the ridiculous fridge that looks like it has a Droid slapped on the front, the same fridge that’s probably more expensive than your entire current kitchen and appliance fleet combined, yup that fridge.

After the new P10 and P10 Plus, Huawei used its time on stage at Mobile World Congress to unveil the follow-up to its Huawei Watch. And just like we suspected from the previous leaks, this new watch is… nothing like the first. It’s chunkier, sportier, blacker, and has a busier look and feel.

The Watch 2 will be available in both a regular and a Classic version, with a Porsche Design edition also coming.

BlackBerry wants to sell you a candybar phone in 2017. This is the bottom-line with the freshly-minted KEYone – which I will call the KeyOne from here on for sanity’s sake – and if it’s a proposition you’re not interested in, there’s nothing here that will change your mind. The one I’m using here in Barcelona, by the way, is the finalized version of the phone, running Android 7.1.1 (preproduction software) and basically ready for retail.

In one of those [Finally] moments, LeEco is releasing an update to its Le Pro3 and Le S3 phones that brings with it an app drawer. Besides just that, there are some improvements to the cameras, (the Le Pro3′s was not the best, if you’ll recall) and some other miscellaneous additions and fixes.

One of the highlighted changes, like I mentioned, is the addition of an app drawer to what LeEco calls the Ecosystem User Interface (EUI).

We’ve published quite a few Deal Alerts already today, and that trend isn’t stopping. As fellow tech geeks, it’s our sworn duty to inform you all about any great prices on technology we find out there. In case today’s deals on other Samsung products, like the Gear 360 camera or Level U Pro wireless headphones, didn’t tickle your fancy, we’ve got some more coming your way right now.

Back in September of last year, Amazon released a new model of its Chromecast competitor, the Fire TV Stick. The $ 39.99 dongle is a major upgrade from the previous model, with better performance and Wi-Fi capabilities. Now Amazon is now selling it in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan.

As opposed to the Chromecast, which doesn’t have any UI or controls of its own, the Fire TV stick has most of the functionality of a standard media set-top box.

If you’re a Telegram user (hi), then you’ll understand how cool this latest news is. The privacy-focused messaging service is finally getting custom theme support on Android, which is just fantastic. You have three basic ones to start, and one of those is dark theme.

Other than that, you get the standard default theme — you know, the one we’ve all been staring at for a while. The final one is blue, which feels slightly redundant, but, I think that it looks quite nice.

If you’re on a budget and want an Android phone, you usually have two choices – buy one of the many low-end Android devices, or purchase an old flagship. For the latter case, you can now get a manufacturer-refurbished LG G4 for just $ 119.99 – about $ 130 less than the unlocked G4 on Amazon.

Now before you jump to buy it, there’s a few things you should know. Although these devices are manufacturer-refurbished, they do not include a warranty or the original packaging.